?? The Perfect Sales PITCH

Have you ever heard the story of selling a comb to the Monks?

There was a company producing combs who wanted to hire a sales director but there are almost close to 100 applicants. So the HR and hiring manager decided to put up an impossible test. Only 3 turns up for the challenge.

The HR manager tells the 3 candidates Adam, Bryan, and Charles, “I need you to sell the comb to the temples. Whoever can sell the most number of comb within 2 weeks will get the job.”

After 2 weeks, all 3 came back and report to the HR manager.

The HR asked Adam: “How many combs did you manage to sell?”

Adam replied: “I got only one sale.”

The HR manager asked: “How did you manage to sell one?

Adam answered: “I went to the temple telling them about the comb features and benefits. The monks in the temple politely told me that they do not need it. On my way back I saw a monk who needs something to comb the horse. I offer to sell him the comb and this is how I got my sale.

The HR manager then asked Bryan: “How many did you sell?

Bryan replied happily: “Fortunately for me, I sold 10 pieces. I went to a temple and noticed that the devotees’ hair were in a mess due to the strong winds. The monk took my advice to offer their devotees the comb a form of gratitude for their devote in Buddha.”

The HR was impressed. He proceeds to ask Charles: “How about you Charles?”

Charles replied: “I had sold a total of 1,000 units of combs.”

The HR and the other 2 interviewees were amazed.

The HR asked: “Tell me how you managed to sell 1000 pieces?”

Charles replied: “I went to a well reputable temple. After monitoring for a couple of days, I discovered that there were always tourists visiting the temple. Then I approach the Chief Abbot and say “Sifu, the people who came to visit the temple are devoted, believer. If the temple could offer them something as a memorable representation in returns of their devotedness, it will give them a sense of belonging.

I told him that by putting his signature on the combs I have now and offer as gifts to these visitors is a way of giving the devotees something to remember for. He was delighted and immediately ordered 1,000 pieces of comb.”

People Buy on Emotion & Solution.

The emotional feeling each individual experiences in buying the product and services is the ultimate reason for the purchase to complete.

Charles was observing the temple situation. He then approaches the Chief Abbot and told him to offer their devoted believer a comb in returns of their devotedness to give them a sense of belonging.

When you are planning to sell a certain product you need to ask yourself this question, “Why do you want to own it?”. This is so that you will understand the differences buying emotion of your audiences.

Now I want you to think of something you wanted in your wish list for a very long time right now and ask yourself this,

Why do you want to buy it?  

Why do you want to buy that particular thing? 

Why do you want to own that thing?

The truth is people buy based on emotion and then justify with logic.

Some example of buying emotions like;

• FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out).
• Fear of Shame.
• Being proud of.
• Feeling of happiness
• Having a sense of appreciation
• A memorabilia of a certain experience
• Sense of Excitement

I want you to think deeper and if you pierce through all the reason, you will realize that emotion is the trigger point which makes you want to own that item.

The truth is people buy based on emotion and then justify with logic.

Think about this before you launch any new product or services, will you be talking about the feature and benefit or are you pushing the emotional hot buttons to your target audiences?

1. You have to first seek to understand your audiences existing problems, feel their pain and then to be understood by your audiences that you are here to provide the solutions for them.
2. People always have problems and they are constantly looking for solutions so that they can buy their way out of it.

Charles offers the chief Abbot a solution to provide memorable gifts with signature to be remembered for as a form of representation in returns of their devoted-ness. So you need to fully be aware and understand what is the problem that you are actually helping your audiences to solve.

3. The amount of money you can make is an indirect proportion of how much you understand your niche market pain and the amount of value you can deliver.

What are your thoughts on this?